it only stinks if you can not accept that life is life, no more no less, why would you assume that everyone who does not follow a religion has no meaning in life, life is what you make it, granted some get to enjoy it more than others from a materialistic point but that again is effected by family and geographical location, as i have said assuming everyone who does not agree or follow religion is a path that Christianity has gone down before and Islam is going down now in certain areas of the world and with certain followers of a form of Islam, Other say this is a perverted form of Islam but t